Top 10 Signs Your Project Communication is Broken
If an email gets sent but no one reads it, did communication even happen?
Communication isnât about noise levels, itâs about meaning.
Thatâs what helps teams move beyond chaos into aligned, intentional execution. If some of the lines below sound familiar⊠it might be time for a change.
10. You schedule a meeting to clarify the update that was supposed to replace the meeting.
9. Your email has four paragraphs and the sponsor calls to say it was unintelligible.
8. Your update was summarized by AI, sent by AI, and read by no one.
7. People are âccâd for awarenessâ but everything still feels stuck.
6. The only feedback you get is a thumbs-up emoji from a team member who resigned last week.
5. Every message links to another message from the previous week.
4. You send an email to remind people of a calendar invite for a meeting only you and your note taker attend.
3. Your dashboard hasnât been updated in two weeks and no one noticed.
2. Your weekly status reports look eerily similar. If it werenât for the date, youâd think it was a copy-paste error.
1. Fourteen weeks into the project, you discover your emails to the customer have been going to spam. No worries, no one noticed.
đŹ Which one hits home?